Email

The Russian webmail provider through which a spate of bomb threats were sent on May 29 to schools around Athens told the cybercrime division of the Greek Police that the account in question was opened through a VPN server located in the United States.

Dozens of schools across Attica received bomb threats via email on Wednesday morning, police say.

The identical emails from an anonymous sender outside Greece alleged that explosives were stored in at least 35 schools in Gerakas, Aigaleo, Ilioupoli, Haidari, and Pallini.

"We will blow you up like our brothers did in Paris," the message said, referencing past terrorist attacks.

Greece's Personal Data Protection Authority (PDPA) on Monday imposed a 400,000-euro fine on the Ministry of Interior and a 40,000-euro fine on New Democracy MEP Anna-Michelle Asimakopoulou for their respective roles in violating data protection regulations.

It was sent from an email with an IP address abroad and likely originated from an automatic translation of text into English

Three separate investigations are currently underway regarding Asimakopoulou’s emails, stated the Minister of Interior

Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin loved pulling pranks, so much so they began rolling outlandish ideas every April Fool's Day not long after starting their company more than a quarter century ago. One year, Google posted a job opening for a Copernicus research center on the moon.

A New Democracy MEP who earlier this month said she would not be contesting in the upcoming European Parliament elections following allegations that she violated data protection regulations by sending a mass email to Greek voters living overseas has said that she received the email addresses from a party colleague in late January 2024.

Before email and messaging, we had regular mail and envelopes, which candidates for the national or European Parliament would send off to voters, only so they could form huge piles in the entrances to our apartment buildings.

The Ministry of the Interior is planning to carry out an internal inquiry to ascertain whether there has been a breach of privacy laws that allowed a candidate for the ruling conservative party in the upcoming European parliamentary elections to send hundreds of Greeks abroad campaign material to their private email accounts.

The issue of personal data and how easily it can be leaked has come to the fore again with a conservative MEP allegedly breaking the law. 

Anna-Michelle Asimakopoulou's office sent emails last Friday with campaign material to Greeks living overseas, several of whom claimed that they had never authorized the use of their personal information.